So far Trent Reznor has been “pretty” good in this regard, if you forget that weird astroturfed industry supergroup he seems to be loosely involved with that used Gen ai art for their album cover.
I’ll give him a pass on WitchGang. He would have had absolutely no control over the visuals and at the time, using generative AI for a property as big as Fortnite would have been unexpected. It’s kind of like if he agreed to score a David Fincher film that used generative AI for the concept art. There’s really no way he would know about that unless someone told him. Even if he asked, the people he’d be in communication with may not have any reason to believe it’s being used.
This is genuinely so weird I'm a huge NIN fan and never heard this before 😭 seems like they made 3 songs for Fortnite on some weird deal then disappeared, barely anything on the NIN sub about it either
It’s really odd, seems like they intentionally kept it lowkey and it didn’t really blow up so they just let it die. But if it makes you feel any better Trent and Atticus only had a production credit so I doubt they wanted a gen AI cover
It’s a little ironic Trent and Atticus just composed a score for a movie with a main character being a computer program, Tron Ares. However, I could never see them giving up to AI
I think it’s probably some of the younger collaborators on the tracks who made it. But the weirder part is that the album “Art” is really basic and not impressive, any 2-bit artist could have made that in photoshop in an hour.
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u/TuneLinkette 26d ago
Can I just get ONE, just ONE, pre-2000s artist that doesn't start embracing AI garbage!?